Yes, shopping your stash! My DW keeps coming to me with “do you have something that would work for this? or that?” But unfortunately, it doesn’t do much stash busting. Some fabric to cover studio lights to make it look more like candlelight, a piece of heavy felt, a nail…yes a nail. She has a workshop in the basement, but I had the perfect sized used nail, goes to show, stash is useful.
My 4 bookshelves, big bins, small bins, and overstock (in the basement) are full! But I’ve been able to do a lot of projects from home.
I needed a tv or Zoom meeting recliner project. I just cannot sit without something in my hands. I’m just not into knitting or crocheting right now…so cross stitch!
I ordered and recieived the plain ones, though what I will do with 10 is unknown. I also purchased patterns for veggies. I’ll probably do about 4 or 5 of them.
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I love the old patterns, but I never know what to do with them either…I only need so many towels, I don’t use tablecloths, and my kitchen is small, so not a lot of places to hang anything…I thought about doing a valance over the kitchen window with some embroidery designs…maybe change it out from time to time since it is on a spring curtain rod…it wouldn’t get a lot of wear since I only wash it in spring cleaning.
Gorgeous! I think you posted some in progress pix, it’s great to see the final result.
Lynx
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@steiconi Love Mt. Catsmere! I can’t wait to read your post.
@marionberries I love seeing it all complete! So pretty.
I have been working on my offering all afternoon. I have figured out how to use last month’s offering as a base that I can add on to so I will have a final product in Dec. I’m sure some months will really have me stretching my creative juices to make that happen, but Feb really worked out. Can’t wait to share; just a little more stitching to go.
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Lynx
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For my February offering, I spent the afternoon stitching up my combined love of mountains and quilting by making this sashing border to go around January’s puffin “block.” My goal is to use the prompts in a way so that I would have a finished product and not just random stitched pieces. In this case, I’d probably end up with a wall hanging! (I hope it is okay to offer new stitchings that are added on to older months sampler style, if not, I still love this!) I am currently working on a quilt with a similar design as my mountain/quilting sashing! I designed the mountains myself. I had considered doing a 6x6 square with mountains, but liked the idea of making a pieced sashing better. I had considered adding mountains to the top and bottom, but decided I liked this design better.
Marionberries, I love those snap peas! Can’t wait to see the finished ones!
Here’s my Feb offering. I was going to do sea creatures (that I love), but last minute needed a decent Valentine for my significant otter. Thus, I stitched up one of our favorite Catana Comics images and colored it (with prismacolor pencils) to match us and our couch.
I didn’t have the right hoop for it so I taped it to some thin cardboard. Still not sure if I’ll do something else with it. Probably not a frame, maybe some contrasting matte or fabric behind the edges?
I gave it to my partner Sunday, and he said “where’re the pets?”
I dashed red wine all over this embroidery! And everywhere else.
I did get the stain out finally, but the design is gone, I’ll have to re-iron on. But, I did decide to take out my progress so far, I don’t like how the back is looking and use a different stitch. So maybe it was meant to be.
My love of stitching, especially cross stitch, started with my love of old samplers. I’ve always been a history fan and my mother took me to living history museums since I was very young. My dad was a breeder of a several old breeds of chickens so he supplied several museums with chickens of the historically correct breeds for that time period, and he’d often get free tickets. What I loved to see most of all in those museums were the textile arts. The samplers, the lace, the clothing. Very often they were just a small part of the exhibition, maybe displayed on a wall somewhere, but I was fascinated. My local library had an old book on old Dutch sampler motifs and I checked that book out dozens of times.
Samplers are the thing I love. And this heart pattern is particularly appropriate. I’ve had this pattern for years, it’s from a DMC series. I’ve stitched two samplers from this series already. All in all I think this is my 5th or 6th classic sampler. On top of that I’ve also stitched several modern or primitive-style samplers. My very first one was a linen on linen sampler I worked on when I was around 17 and it’s also one of the first projects I remember posting on Deadster. I don’t think many people were interested in oldfashioned samplers back then (2007-ish?) so I don’t think I posted all of my samplers.
You know what the worst part is? None of them are framed. A sampler deserves a proper frame. And I’ve never really come across any frames that are appropriate for my samplers, I think I want custom frames. I’ve never gotten around to having them framed but that’s on my to-do list for this year.